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This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program, supports a project to identify and document archaeological evidence of tribal encampment sites associated with the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie in a 350-acre area at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. The $103,811 award to the University of Wyoming will utilize geophysical investigations, pedestrian inventory, and tribal input to locate and document these previously unknown sites, enabling the NPS to preserve them for public education and inspiration. The project will be completed by December 31, 2026, building on the NPS's network of Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units that facilitate collaborative, interdisciplinary research and technical assistance to support science-based management of the National Park System.

P23AS00132 NPS cooperative ecosystems studies units cesu master cooperative agreements is designed to build a national consortium of federal agencies tribes academic institutions state and local governments nongovernmental conservation organizations and other partners that work together to support informed public trust resource stewardship. Through cesus scientists resource managers students and other conservation professionals draw on expertise from across the biological physical social cultural and engineering disciplines to conduct or provide collaborative and interdisciplinary research technical assistance and educational activities that address natural and cultural heritage resource issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context.programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research technical assistance education and training to inform sciencebased management of the national park system. The study units facilitate multidisciplinary science and integrated information products across multiple geographic regions of the national park system. The main objective of this project is to use geophysical investigations pedestrian inventory and tribal input to identify and document archeological evidence of tribal encampment sites currently unknown to science in a 350ARCE area at fort laramie between 1834 and 1890 especially those associated with the 1868 treaty of fort laramie. Documenting these sites will allow NPS to work toward preserving them for the enjoyment education and inspiration of this and future generations.beneficiaries include state and local governments federally recognized indian tribal governments public private nonprofit organizations nonprofit institutions of higher education and the general public.